Amend SB 658 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 118.025(g), Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(g)  Before collecting the fee under this section, the county clerk may [shall] prepare an annual written plan for funding the preservation and restoration of the county clerk's records archive. If a plan is prepared, the [The] commissioners court shall publish notice of a public hearing on the plan in a newspaper of general circulation in the county not later than the 15th day before the date of the hearing. After the public hearing, the plan shall be considered for approval by the commissioners court. If a plan is prepared, funds [Funds] from the records archive account may be expended only as provided by the plan. All expenditures from the records archive account shall comply with Subchapter C, Chapter 262. The hearing may be held during the budget process. After establishing the fee, the plan may be approved annually during the budget process.